After falling in love with my 17inch 1GHz iMac, I became smitten with the apple laptops....
the powerbooks are far too much out of my price range at the moment however I figured..hey the 999 iBook looks cool...

wow thats looks like a damn good deal...did i catch and ipod in there too??? cool!

about the ram...if your doing minor stuff you don't necesarily NEED the ram..but if you can afford it why not? i have a friend that has an old 600mhz with 128megs of ram and he gets by just fine doing quite the computer intensive things

now all you need to do is get all those computers folding!!! (if you havn't already)